Apparently Juan Williams thinks the Constitution is racist or something. Or at least some elements of the Constitution are racist. Juan Williams claimed the Constitution was racist last Friday on Hannity.
In a discussion with plenty of other objectionable elements on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Friday, Juan Williams asserted that “There’s no question that if you look at our Constitution, there are elements of racism right in it.” Note his use of the present tense.
Juan Williams is basically Fox News’ version of Al Sharpton. Everything is racist.
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The version of this country’s founding document Williams was referencing must be 147 or more years old, because the only element of the original Constitution which was arguably racist — the inclusion of non-free persons as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of allocating House seats in Article I — went away when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Even that argument ignores the existence of white slaves at the time of its adoption. Williams seemed to have acquired a whiff of sanity in a Wall Street Journal column which appeared Friday evening about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, calling him “America’s Most Influential Thinker on Race.” Sadly, he reverted to predictable hackery in a four-way discussion with Hannity, author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, and National Review’s Kevin Williamson.